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Integrating Climate Change Research and Planning to Inform Wildlife Conservation in the Boreal Forests of the Northeastern U.S. Northeastern boreal forests are an important habitat type for many wildlife species, including migratory birds and moose. These animals play vital roles in the boreal forest ecosystem, are a source of pleasure for bird and wildlife watchers, and contribute to tourism revenue for many communities. However, moose and migratory birds are thought to be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. For example, in New York’s Adirondack Park system, five species of boreal birds have shown occupancy declines of 15% or more. Meanwhile, moose are threatened by winter ticks that thrive in warmer climates and spread disease. A 2018 New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) report found that there... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2016, Birds, Birds, Birds, CASC, All tags... Climate Change, Completed, Forests, Forests, Landscapes, Landscapes, Mammals, Mammals, National CASC, National CASC, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, State of the Science, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Global Analysis of Trends in Projected and Documented Effects of Climate Change on Inland Fish Inland fish populations are a crucial resource to humans and communities around the world. Recreational fishing throughout the United States, for example, provides important revenue to local and state economies; globally, inland fisheries are a vital food source for billions of people. Warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, however, are already causing significant changes to fish communities worldwide. Since the mid-1980s, scientists have projected the effects of climate change on inland fish, and in more recent years, documentation of impacts has increased. However, the number of documented impacts of climate change on inland fish remains low. A comprehensive understanding of how climate change... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2016, CASC, Completed, Fish, Fish, All tags... National CASC, National CASC, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, Understanding Trends, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Migration Mismatch: Bird Migration and Phenological Mismatching There are approximately 2,000 species of migratory birds worldwide, and over 300 of those can be found in North America. Changing climate conditions pose challenges for many migratory birds and their responses to these challenges can depend on their biology. To illustrate these impacts, a board game, called Migration Mismatch, was developed to help elementary school students understand these challenges. Migration Mismatch can help students build their understanding of biological processes and how species, birds in this case, interact with their environment. The game provides an interactive element to learning about adaptations of different bird species to environmental changes and provides a link to birds they may... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Birds, Birds, Birds, CASC, All tags... Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, National CASC, National CASC, National CASC, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Projects by Region, Projects by Region, Science Tools For Managers, Science Tools For Managers, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Water quality, quantity, and gas fluxes of the Upper Mississippi River basin (WY 2012-2016) This product consists of one tabular dataset and associated metadata of water quality information related to rivers, streams, and reservoirs in the Upper Mississippi River watershed between 2012 and 2016. This data release is a part of a national assessment of freshwater aquatic carbon fluxes. Data consist of organic and inorganic carbon related species, carbon dioxide and methane gas fluxes calculated from manual chamber measurements, nitrogen species, carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes, cations, anions, trace metals, and various in situ measurements including: pH, water temperature, air temperature, barometric pressure, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, fluorescent dissolved organic matter, and specific conductance.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Carbon, Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter (fDOM), Minnesota, Shingobee, Shingobee Headwaters Aquatic Ecosystems Project, All tags... Shingobee River Headwaters Region, Surface Water Quality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Mississippi River Basin, Upper Mississippi River Basin Project, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, Wisconsin, air temperature, alkalinity, aluminum, ammonium, atmospheric carbon dioxide, atmospheric methane, barium, boron, calcium, carbon dioxide (water), carbon dioxide (water), carbon dioxide flux, carbon isotopes, chloride, deuterium, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence index, greenhouse gas flux, hydrophilic organic acid, hydrophobic organic acid, hydrophobic organic neutral, inorganic carbon, magnesium, manganese, methane flux, nitrate, organic carbon, oxygen isotopes, pH (water), potassium, silicon dioxide, sodium, specific conductance, strontium, sulfate, sulfur, total dissolved nitrogen, total iron, transphilic organic acid, turbidity, ultraviolet-visible absorbance, water quality, water temperature, Fewer tags Great Dismal Swamp Project The Great Dismal Swamp (GDS) project is an application of USGS LandCarbon, at the US Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), and is designed to produce local-scale carbon estimates (including fluxes, ecosystem balance, and long-term sequestration rate) to include in an ecosystem service assessment in support of Department of Interior (DOI) land management activities. The project will improve the understanding of the effects of past drainage, logging, farming, and management on carbon sequestration and fire risk in peatlands. Broad Science Questions: How are ecosystem services (including carbon sequestration, wildlife viewing, water quality, and others) impacted by management... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Atlantic White Cedar, Carbon Flux, Carbon Stock, Disturbance, Ecosystem Services, All tags... Freshwater forested wetland, Great Dismal Swamp, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Hydrology, LUCAS Model, Lateral West Fire, Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance, Peatlands, Soil Carbon, Staging, State-and-transition simulation models, USGS, Wetlands, Fewer tags Comprehensive Delineation of Groundwater Source Areas and Times-of-travel to Long Island Streams and Estuaries Problem The discharge of freshwater and associated loading of nutrients and other dissolved constituents from the Long Island aquifer system to surrounding estuaries and their tributaries are increasingly recognized as critical factors in the health of these ecosystems. However, further work is needed to scientifically characterize these factors and present them to the public in an appropriate manner. Many organizations have undertaken assessments of this discharge and loading for discrete groundwater source areas and (or) receiving surface waters, applying a variety of techniques and assumptions. In part, this is because there is no delineation of recharge areas to the island’s groundwater-fed streams and estuaries... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Basin & Hydrogeologic Characterization, Basin & Hydrogeologic Characterization, Climate Change, Climate Research and Development, ClimateChange, All tags... Cooperative Water Program, Ecosystem Health, Ecosystem Health, Environments, Flood Science, Flood Science, Flood Science, Geospatial Applications, Geospatial Applications, Groundwater-Flow Modeling, Groundwater-Flow Modeling, Groundwater-Flow Modeling, Hydrogeologic Characterization, Hydrogeologic Characterization, Hydrogeologic Characterization, Long Island, NY, New York, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Water Use and Availability Science, Water Use and Availability Science, flow model, groundwater, nutrients, recharge, water quality, Fewer tags Surface-Water Data Collection in New York Problem Surface-water information is needed for planning, design, hazard warning, and operation and management in water-related fields such as water supply, hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, bridge and culvert design, wildlife management, pollution abatement, flood-plain management, and water-resources development. Appropriate historical and real-time surface-water data, such as stream flow and stage, reservoir levels, and water temperature, are necessary to properly assess, manage and protect water resources. Objectives Collect timely and high quality surface-water data for (1) assessment of water resources; (2) operation of reservoirs or industries; (3) forecasting flow; (4) disposal of wastes... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Climate Impacts, Climate Impacts, Climate Research and Development, Climate impacts, Cooperative Water Program, All tags... Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries, Ecoflows, Ecoflows, Ecoflows, Energy Resources, Environments, Flood Inundation, Flood Inundation, Flood Inundation, Floods and Droughts, GW or SW, GW or SW, GW or SW, Groundwater and Streamflow Information, Groundwater and Streamflow Information, Low Flow or Peak Flow, Low Flow or Peak Flow, Low flow or peak flow, SW Model, SW model, Stream Hydraulics, Stream Hydraulics, Stream hydraulics, StreamStats, StreamStats, StreamStats, Surface-Water Monitoring, Surface-Water Monitoring, Surface-Water Monitoring, Toxic Substance Hydrology, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Fewer tags Effects of acid-base chemistry on biology of lakes and streams in the Adirondack Mountains BACKGROUND Watersheds of the Adirondack Mountains receive high levels of acid deposition resulting from atmospheric emissions of nitrogen and sulfur oxides. Acidic deposition has been shown to reduce acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) and calcium (Ca) concentrations, and increase acidity and aluminum (Al) concentrations in soils and surface waters, and affect forest health as well as fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages across the region. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing secondary standards for nitrogen and sulfur emissions that will indirectly protect terrestrial and aquatic species and their communities from further adverse impacts and promote recovery of acidified ecosystems... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Adirondack Mountains, Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Assessment, Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Assessment, BiogeochemicalandHydrologicAssessment, Climate Research and Development, All tags... Cooperative Water Program, Ecosystem Health, Ecosystem Health, Environments, Focused Assessments, Focused Assessments, Focused Assessments, Mineral Resources, New York, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags Global Assessment of River Fish Production and Potential Global Change Implications Better understanding of the overall fishery production in river systems around the world may influence general development policies and practices for aquatic systems and sustainable maintenance of an important protein source (particularly for poorer countries where fish are relatively readily available to the local human population). With this study, researchers worked to fill this knowledge gap by estimating the overall fishery production in river networks globally using multivariate statistical models with explanatory variables compiled from remotely sensed and in‐situ observations. The freshwater fish production in rivers was estimated by: 1. Developing models using key drivers (temperature, precipitation,... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, CASC, Completed, Fish, Fish, All tags... Fish biomass, Inland Fish, National CASC, National CASC, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Projects by Region, Remote Sensing, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Science to Action Fellowship: Supporting Graduate Students to Apply Science to Decision Making and Adaptation The mission of the US Geological Survey’s National Climate Adaptation Science Center (NCASC) is to provide managers, policy-makers, and other stakeholders with information and decision-making tools to respond to effects of climate change on natural resources. In support of this goal, the NCASC wishes to support an exceptional mentoring experience for graduate students from select partner institutions in developing policy-relevant products related to managing climate change impacts on fish, wildlife, and/or ecosystems. For many graduate students conducting research on the impacts of climate change on natural resources, disseminating results of their research to managers, policy-makers, and/or other stakeholders is... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, CASC, Completed, National CASC, National CASC, All tags... National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, State of the Science, science to action, student fellowship, Fewer tags Climate Change Impacts to Migratory Birds: Development of a Climate-informed Integrated Population Model Migratory birds play a crucial role in many ecosystems (e.g. as pollinators and insect regulators) and are also valued by many bird watchers throughout the country and world. Effective conservation of migratory birds depends on a clear understanding of how environmental factors affect key demographic rates (e.g., survival and reproduction). This informational need is especially pressing in the context of climate change. Climate change is expected to affect migratory bird habitat and populations in multiple ways, and a mechanistic understanding of how demographic rates are related to climate variables will help land and resource managers to better anticipate and manage these changes. The Institute for Bird Populations... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2016, Birds, Birds, Birds, CASC, All tags... Climate Change, Completed, National CASC, National CASC, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Projects by Region, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Long-Term Monitoring of Buck Creek Watershed in the Western Adirondack Region of New York Monitoring of lake chemistry in the western Adirondack region has indicated reductions in the acidity of these lakes during the past two decades. However, lakes are not always reliable indicators of streams and soils. Uncertainty remains regarding the recovery potential of surface waters and the effects of acidic deposition on soils. Furthermore, nitrogen, long considered a growth-limiting nutrient for northern temperate forests, is likely to be available in excess of that needed by Adirondack forest ecosystems as a result of acidic deposition. In this region, excess nitrogen in the soil leads to acidification of soils and surface waters. Calcium, important for acid neutralization, is also an important nutrient,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Assessment, Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Assessment, BiogeochemicalandHydrologicAssessment, Buck Creek, Climate Research and Development, All tags... Cooperative Water Program, Ecosystem Health, Ecosystem Health, Environments, GW or SW, GW or SW, GW or SW, New York, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags